World Rugs & Carpets: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Provenance and Buying of Carpets by David Black

Description

Lavishly illustrated with over 200 colour and 150 black and white photographs, detailed line drawings and 12 maps of the carpet-producing areas of the world, this book, with its authoritative text, is an invaluable guide for collectors of rugs and carpets.

The greater part of World Rugs & Carpets is devoted to a detailed treatment of the major carpet-producing areas of the world – Turkey, the Caucasus, Persia, Turkestan, Afghanistan,  India, China, Europe and America.